Sentences with phrase «more local galaxies»
More local galaxies may be unduly influenced by the gravity of local clumps of matter.
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Cepheids are not bright enough to be seen beyond our local galaxies, so astronomers have sought more prominent reference lights.
The Milky Way, the galaxy we live in, is part of a cluster of more than 50 galaxies that make up the «Local Group», a collection that includes the famous Andromeda galaxy and many other far smaller objects.
Of all the globular clusters in the Local Group of galaxies, only Mayall II in the Andromeda Galaxy is brighter and more massive.
Local Group, in astronomy, the group of more than 20 galaxies to which the Milky Way Galaxy belongs.
An international team of astronomers has derived directly, for the first time, the orbital distribution of a galaxy sample, containing more than 300 galaxies of the local universe.
Messier 31 is the largest and most massive member of the Local Group of galaxies, which also includes the Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) and more than 40 smaller galaxies.